Southwest Jiaotong University, located in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. It ranks among the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities, 211 project and 985 project advantage discipline innovation platforms. It has been selected into the innovation ability improvement plan of colleges and universities, the discipline innovation talent introduction plan of higher education, the education and training plan of outstanding engineers, and the national innovation platform for college students The first batch of colleges and universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the National College Students' cultural quality education base, the National College Students' practice education and innovation and entrepreneurship base, the first batch of colleges and universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer The base is a member of China EU Elite University Alliance and a training unit of aid Tibet program.The school was founded in 1896 at Shanhaiguan Beiyang railway school. Since then, it has been relocated and renamed several times. Tangshan Jiaotong University is famous both at home and abroad. It is known as "Oriental Cornell", especially in civil engineering and mining and metallurgy. In 1952, after the adjustment of colleges and departments, it was renamed Tangshan railway institute, specializing in the training of rail transit talents. In 1964, the school moved to Emei and was named Southwest Jiaotong University in 1972. In 1989, the main body of the school moved to Chengdu. In 2000, the school was under the management of the Ministry of education.As of November 2019, the university has three campuses, Xipu, Jiuli and Emei, covering an area of more than 5000 mu; there are graduate schools and two non local graduate schools (Qingdao graduate school and Tangshan Graduate School); there are 26 colleges and one Affiliated Hospital; there are two first-class national key disciplines and 10 second-class national key disciplines; there are 19 first-class doctoral programs and 3 professional courses There are 2448 full-time teachers, 29025 full-time undergraduates, 10489 postgraduates, 2364 doctoral students and 900 international students.